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Whatever AI is doing to how we find / share information aside, I do think that one under appreciated effect is on how software (and other things) get built. Lo
by Rperry2174 1mo ago
Whatever AI is doing to how we find / share information aside, I do think that one under appreciated effect is on how software (and other things) get built. Lowering the barrier to entry for writing code and other tasks feels democratizing , but we may just not have had enough time to see how that hopefully has positive effects a decade out.
Its funny how fast we forget that when Google came out and arguably now many would laugh at the statement "all the good, companies like Google brought to the internet"
- Intralexical 1mo agoI've noticed these big tech companies use the word "democratize" when they do something that looks more like commoditizing. Flooding a market with supply consolidates their own power, by suppressing other economic actors' bargaining power and making quality controls uncompetitive.
- j45 1mo agoFlooding the market with supply while quality might not be the same is a real risk.
- centuryfall 1mo ago> Lowering the barrier to entry for writing code and other tasks feels democratizing It really isn’t doing any of that, though. When AI gets it wrong, that person needs to understand why it is wrong, and without that upfront knowledge or skill of reasoning, it’s much less direct to actually build something in the correct ways.